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The Indian WhatsApp lynchings are a spate of mob-related violence and killings following the spread of rumours, primarily relating to child abduction and organ harvesting, via WhatsApp. The spate of lynchings commenced in May 2017 with the killing of seven men in Jharkhand , but did not become a matter of national attention until the beginning ...
A Nihang Sikh [5] group took responsibility for the killing after the man committed sacrilege of their holy scripture. [6] A Nihang accepted his role in the murder, and gave arrest on the same day. The second accused, who also belongs to the Nihang group, was arrested by the Amritsar police.
2020 Palghar mob lynching Gadchinchale Gadchinchale (Maharashtra) Location Gadchinchale, Palghar District, Maharashtra, India Coordinates 20°05′04″N 73°03′40″E / 20.0843517°N 73.0611882°E / 20.0843517; 73.0611882 Date 16 April 2020 Attack type lynching Weapons stones, axes, sticks Deaths 3 Accused 115 villagers, 9 juveniles On 16 April 2020, a vigilante group lynched ...
Fake news isn't just an American problem, or a political problem, or a Facebook problem or a Twitter problem. Yesterday, the Washington Post reports five people were killed in a lynching in India ...
Since May 2017, when seven people were lynched in Jharkhand, India has experienced another spate of mob-related violence and killings known as the Indian WhatsApp lynchings following the spread of fake news, primarily relating to child-abduction and organ harvesting, via the WhatsApp message service.
The Lakhimpur Kheri incident [18] was a sequence of violent incidents comprising a vehicle-ramming attack, drive-by shooting [19] and a mob lynching all on 3 October 2021 at Banbirpur village near Tikunia in Lakhimpur Kheri district, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Local law enforcement deny a lynching took place in Vance County, despite calls for justice for a Black truck driver found dead with a rope around his neck in Henderson going viral on social media.
The lynching resulted in public anger, [17] debates on the use of "Jai Shri Ram" as a war cry against muslims [18] and multiple protests, including one in New Delhi held near the parliament house, where protesters chanted slogans against the BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi and demanded an end to anti-Muslim violence.